I Think, Therefore I Am? Dementia and Human Identity
Talk by Revd Dr Joanna Collicutt
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Abstract
Dementia is a gradual, irreversible decline in mental abilities that is caused by an underlying health
condition affecting the brain. It has devastating personal, interpersonal, and social consequences.
Prominent among these is the deconstruction of personality that renders the individual less
recognisable to self and others, a loss of the rational ability that the modern age has equated with
existence as a human person, and the pre-modern age equated with the Imago Dei. The memory loss
that accompanies conditions such as Alzheimer's disease means that the affected individual can no
longer tell his or her story, but even more important is the story that society tells. The recent pandemic
has sadly shown the truth of the old adage; 'The tragedy in dementia is not that the individual forgets
but that she is forgotten.' How might a better story of dementia be told and how might it inform
questions of human embodiment, identity, and worth more generally?
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#FaradayInstitute Summer Course 2020: Telling A Better Story - Why Faith and Science Belong Together
Thursday 2nd July A better story about human identity
10.00 am Neuroscience and Human Identity – Dr Sharon Dirckx
2.00 pm 'I think therefore I am'? Dementia and Human Identity – Revd Dr Joanna Collicutt
8.00 pm Dying Well – Prof. John Wyatt
Live-streaming 2nd July 2020 2:00pm BST
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